The nativity story [videorecording]
by Hardwicke, Catherine; Rich, Mike; Castle-Hughes, Keisha; Isaac, Oscar; Hinds, Ciaran; Aghdashloo, Shohreh; Danna, Mychael; New Line Home Entertainment (Firm).
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Visual materialPublisher: Burbank, CA : New Line Home Entertainment, 2007Edition: Widescreen and full screen versions.Description: 1 videodisc (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.ISBN: 0708656709.Subject(s): Jesus Christ -- Nativity -- Drama | Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint -- Drama | Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint -- Motherhood -- Drama | Joseph, Saint -- Drama | Jesus Christ -- Drama | Prophecy -- Drama | Magi -- Drama | Feature films | Religious films | Bethlehem -- DramaCast: Keisha Castle-Hughes, Oscar Isaac, Hiam Abbass, Shaun Toub, Alexander Siddig, Ciar�an Hinds, Shohreh Aghdashloo.Summary: Begins with the slaughter of Bethlehem's innocents under orders from a paranoid King Herod. Go back a year to the prophecy that informs Zechariah that his wife, Elizabeth, will bear a child. Elizabeth's cousin, the adolescent Mary, struggles with her family to make ends meet and is promised to the carpenter Joseph. Mary is told by the angel Gabriel that she will carry, while still a virgin, the long-awaited Messiah who will liberate the Jews from Herod and his Roman benefactors. Joseph and Mary travel to Bethlehem. Three Magi spend months crossing the desert trying to rendezvous with some point below the convergence of three heavenly bodies in the night sky. Friendship and trust emerges between Mary and Joseph after he is told in a dream that she speaks truthfully about her miraculous pregnancy.
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DVD release of the 2006 motion picture.
Keisha Castle-Hughes, Oscar Isaac, Hiam Abbass, Shaun Toub, Alexander Siddig, Ciar�an Hinds, Shohreh Aghdashloo.
Begins with the slaughter of Bethlehem's innocents under orders from a paranoid King Herod. Go back a year to the prophecy that informs Zechariah that his wife, Elizabeth, will bear a child. Elizabeth's cousin, the adolescent Mary, struggles with her family to make ends meet and is promised to the carpenter Joseph. Mary is told by the angel Gabriel that she will carry, while still a virgin, the long-awaited Messiah who will liberate the Jews from Herod and his Roman benefactors. Joseph and Mary travel to Bethlehem. Three Magi spend months crossing the desert trying to rendezvous with some point below the convergence of three heavenly bodies in the night sky. Friendship and trust emerges between Mary and Joseph after he is told in a dream that she speaks truthfully about her miraculous pregnancy.
Rated PG; for some violent content.
DVD; Dolby digital; Region 1; widescreen (2.35:1) and full screen (1.33:1) presentations.
In English, with optional English or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned.
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